Australia Maps & Info – World Atlas

Masking an space of seven,617,930 sq.km (2,969,907 sq mi), Australia is the smallest continent, the world’s 6^th largest nation and the most important nation in Oceania. It’s situated between the Indian and Pacific Oceans within the Southern hemisphere.

Australia is extraordinarily dry, with about 35% of the nation receiving little or no rain (if any). Virtually 20% of accessible land is dominated by deserts and semi-arid land, situated alongside the Tropic of Capricorn.

Ayers Rock (Uluru): Thought-about the most important solitary rock on the planet, its purple sandstone floor smoothed by excessive winds over time is revered as a holy place and referred to as Uluru by the aboriginal folks. It’s 1,143ft (348m) excessive and is situated within the semi-arid area of Central Australia.

On the northernmost level of Queensland is Cape York Peninsula, described because the world’s “final wilderness”, and as one of many “wildest unexplored wilderness space on the planet”. Cape York is dwelling to jagged-tooth mountains, tropical rainforests, in depth mangrove forests, grasslands, swamps and fast-moving rivers.

The Nice Dividing Mountain Vary extends from Melbourne (within the south) to Cape York (within the north). Positioned in New South Wales, within the south japanese a part of the nation is, Mount Kosciuszko, the very best level within the Australian mainland, at an elevation of seven,312ft (2,229m) (as marked on the map by an upright yellow triangle). The bottom level is situated in South Australia within the dry mattress of Lake Eyre at -49ft (-15m) under sea stage.

Darling/Murray River System: The Darling River, 1,160 miles (1,879km) in size, flows southwest from the perimeters of the Nice Dividing Vary into the Murray River. The Murray rises within the Australian Alps and flows 1,200 miles (1,930km) to the Spencer Gulf, immediately west of Adelaide. It’s the longest river in Australia and is an important supply of irrigation for the nation’s main agricultural industries.

Darling Vary: This low mountain vary runs by far southwestern Australia. Its highest level is Mt. Cooke at 1,910ft (580m).

The Nice Barrier Reef: It extends for about 1600 miles off the north japanese coast of Australia.

Fraser Island: Positioned alongside Australia’s coral sea shoreline, to the north of Brisbane (and never proven on this map), Fraser Island is Australia’s 4^th largest island (after Tasmania, Melville Island and Kangaroo Island), and the most important sand island on this planet. Created by the motion of wind over hundreds of years, the island is 120km lengthy and about 115km broad.

States of Australia Map

Australia (formally, the Commonwealth of Australia) is split into 6 states and a couple of main mainland territories. In alphabetical order, the states are: New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia. The 2 main mainland territories are: Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory. Along with these, there are seven exterior territories – Ashmore and Cartier Islands, the Australian Antarctic Territory, Christmas Island, the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the Coral Sea Islands, Heard Island and McDonald Islands and Norfolk Islands.

Positioned within the northern fringe of the Australian Capital Territory, within the southeastern a part of the nation is, Canberra – the capital of the Federation of Australia. Additionally it is the nation’s largest inland metropolis and serves because the central administrative heart of the federation. Located on the nation’s southeastern coast is, Sydney – the most important and essentially the most populous metropolis of Australia and Oceania. Its strategic location and sumptuous harbor, makes it one of many chief ports in South Pacific. Melbourne is Australia’s 2^nd largest metropolis.

The place is Australia?

Australia is the smallest continent and the most important nation in Oceania situated between the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean within the Southern hemisphere. Australia is geographically positioned each within the Southern and Jap hemispheres of the Earth. It’s fully surrounded by the Indian and Pacific Oceans and a collection of bays, gulfs, seas and straits and is located to the south of Maritime Southeast Asia and to the north of the Antactic. Australia is separated from Papua New Guinea by the Coral Sea and Torres Strait to the northeast; from Indonesia by the Timor and Arafura seas to the northwest; from Coral Sea Islands Territory by the Nice Barrier Reef; from New Zealand by Tasman Sea to the southeast; and from Antarctica by Indian Ocean to the south.

Regional Maps: Map of Oceania